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complementary

[kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] / ˌkɒm pləˈmɛn tə ri, -tri /


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The company has begun weighing a complementary offering that could be built around advertising sales.

From Barron's Aug. 5, 2026

Throughout the day, fans crossed the grounds in bright Latin American soccer jerseys, the eye-catching complementary greens and reds of Mexico and the rich blue of El Salvador dotting the crowd.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Bernstein analysts said in a separate note that the two companies had complementary portfolios in oncology and cardiovascular diseases, but that a deal seemed unlikely to go ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

Each pathway filled a different combination of energy levels within zinc-70, allowing researchers to observe its nuclear structure from two complementary perspectives.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

They made a perfectly complementary pair, Thorne a skillful salesman who hawked the securities transactions contrived by the introverted Alfred.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But just as much as complementaries, van Gogh loved using colors that are adjacent on the color wheel.

From Washington Post Mar. 12, 2019

This novel about young Ged’s education in both magic and self-understanding relies throughout on Taoist notions of complementaries — the balance between light and dark, speech and silence, self and shadow.

From Washington Post Oct. 3, 2016

Greenish-yellow and blue are a pair of complementaries, as already mentioned.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

There are pairs of so-called complementaries which make a very crude, harsh, even painful impression.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes

It has been traditional to consider the complementaries black-white, red-green, blue-yellow, and the other pairs resulting from the mixtures of these as the best combinations.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes




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